Re: f8 packages not upgraded by f9

From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt gmail com>

To: fedora-devel-list redhat com

Subject: Re: f8 packages not upgraded by f9

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 00:10:18 +0100

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:59:55 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> While peeking at my list of orphaned packages, I noticed these, from f8:
>
> grub-0.97-33.1.fc8.x86_64
> hal-info-20080607-2.fc8.noarch
>
> In the case of grub, it looks like the f9 distro tag isn't being
> considered as newer than f8 when the version is otherwise the same (bug?).
Packaging mistake. In RPM version comparison, numbers are "higher than"
letters:
1 > a
1 > f
1 > fc9
33.1 > 33.fc9
33.1.fc8 > 33.fc9
> For hal-info, it looks suspiciously like an f8 update postdated the f9
> release and is versioned such that the f8 is "newer". I guess the
> even-newer f10 package will just "fix" this, but it's still strange.
>
> Any thoughts?
Packaging mistakes. Such updates for older dist branches ought to
increase the package release at the very right: 1.fc8 --> 1.fc8.1 --> 1.fc8.2
and so on, to stay "older than" 1.fc9